Episode 1 - Server Consolidation and The Cloud - It Is All About The People
This is the first episode of our â??IT Professional Report From the Trenchesâ?? Podcast available here: http://budurl.com/TheITProPodcast
The first subject at hand is something many of us IT Professionals, are dealing every day.
It is all about The Cloud, Server Consolidation, Virtualization, this kind of stuff.
Here is whatâ??s happening in consolidation and cloud-based projects: usually people tend to focus on the technology and hardware and that's pretty much natural.
It is especially true for our IT professionals, because this is what we do best, and thatâ??s what people expect us to do.
So you tend to focus on servers, which kind of hardware youâ??d want to buy, electricity and cooling, infrastructure issues. Sometimes you need to actually run a Server Consolidation project where you merge several types of hardware, originating of several labs, computer rooms or Data Centers.
So you tend to focus on subjects such as â??which Virtualization related products we want to use? Is it VMware or maybe Microsoftâ??s Hyper-V, Citrix Xen, Oracle Virtual Server. HP Virtual Machines, IBM AIX LPARs or something else?â??
You can get pretty good results in this area. But you'll probably find out, that such projects that tend to focus on the technological aspects are in danger. If you ask yourself what is reason for that risk, why you are having all those challenges, and why is the hardware becoming the less important issue in the project implementation.
Let me tell you something - it's all about people.
It's always about people, in every project. We as IT professionals have to bear this in mind because it's very easy for us to focus on the technology.
As we are referring to Server Consolidation and The Cloud, and answering questions such as â??How Do I consolidate all my hardwareâ?? and â??How and where do I run my cloudâ?? , you will probably agree that The Cloud and Server Consolidation is all about getting you the flexibility you need to be able and share resources, to save time and money.
When you want to set up Server Consolidation or run your processes within The Cloud, it's all about having the flexibility to move resources to the relevant project very quickly, and it's about sharing resources. The reason is, you don't want to buy again and again and again, the hardware for each group alone. You want to be able to share and distribute resources at will.
All this leads to saving time and money.
But then, how this all these relate to peopl
